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Another chilly ride out. BST Breakfast run. Sunday March 25th.

26/3/2012

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The alarm went off on Sunday morning, and I stumbled out of bed to get ready for our annual "British Summer Time Breakfast Run".  The clocks had just gone forward so getting up was an even bigger shock than usual.
The weather in Northampton was bright and sunny and things were looking good..
Setting off  I found my first problem of the day as the bike stopped with a clunk. I had forgot to remove the disc lock. Linn my passenger was not impressed. 
With that sorted we set off again arriving in good time for the 10am start from the square in Higham Ferrers.
Fourteen bikes ranging from near new to very much older where at the start. Mark, Pip and Melvin all on their elderly Panthers but despite this I think its safe to say in general our group of riders were older than the bikes.
We all set off at the appointed time behind Matt heading for Duloe near St Neots by some narrow minor roads. We were going at a slow pace initially because of the older bikes but this became an even slower pace because of the fog. Once again we had managed to organise a run in fog and freezing cold when the rest of the country is basking in sunshine. The fog and cold got worse as we went east.
What a relief to arrive at Duloe village hall and its tea urn. 
The East Anglian Cyclemotor Club (EACC) were holding their "Duloe Daffodil Dash" a low speed but highly entertaining moped run around the local countryside.
We had arrived to have a look at the eccentric collection of machines and equally eccentric riders and watch them set off amidst a great cloud of smoke and noise. We were not disappointed.
When all was quiet and the EACC  had pedalled off  it was time for us to move on to the breakfast aspect of our ride. I had my sat nav so  was elected to lead us to Grafham Waters vistor centre. I set the machine to take the shortest route rather than the fastest route.
This involved going down some narrow lanes, then through a deep ford in full flow. At this point I wished the sat nav had a sensible route option. We continued on and joined the A1 dual carrigeway. Ten minutes later we were sitting down  to breakfast and beginning to warm up despite the door to the terrace being locked in the open position with a notice ordering it  to be left open.
Breakfast was good although a bit more expensive than we usually pay, but then you need to remember we are a gang of cheapskates.
After breakfast we emerged into sunshine, at last. 
After a short discussion people headed off in small groups to their homes or even other peoples homes for further sustenance.
We were almost the last to leave and were going straight home so Linn could get some work done. I resumed my away with the fairies mindset and promptly tumbled off the bike at two mph on a camber as I turned left leaving the car park right in front of Dave on his Bonneville. No real damage done and with Daves help we got the bike up and were soon on our way. This little incident and setting off with the disk lock on earlier have now got Linn thinking my mind is on its way out. She may be right but I think I have always been like this. Time will tell.
See some ride out photos on gallery 2.
1 Comment
Matt
26/3/2012 09:00:35 am

John,

Were you keeping your first mishap quiet or was it that we were all too busy listening to the reprimands being dished out by "The lady of Graffam Water" - I mean who on earth would expect people to arrive at a cafe and ask for food....I ask you how inconsiderate us bikers have become!

Sorry about not being around to laugh....I mean assist at your second mishap of the day but pleased no damage (other than pride) done........funny it was leaving the same car park on one of our earlier Breakfast Time rides that Chris Saunders came off exiting the car park as he forgot to kick his side stand up - maybe next year we should look for a different venu.

It was a shame about the weather had it been like this morning we would have really had a fantastic day and been able to enjoy the scenary and route - never mind it was nice to see a good turn out!

The Buzzing ride wasn't as good as our first trip due to the rather disjointed start next year will have to volunteer to drop a start flag!

All the best ........and see I do follow instructions and am now responding to your blog.

Matt

PS On return weather was so good gave two of the bikes a good clean and then though to warm to stay indoors and went for another spin on the T100 followed by the Model 7 will be raiding the grandchildrens money boxes to get some more fuel.

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